Category: Social Action
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Substituting the Social for the Spiritual
I’ve been perusing an old periodical, The Christian Worker’s Magazine (Nov 1919), published by the Moody Bible Institute. In an article titled “Christian Education: Its Relation to Modern World Life” the author Rev. Robert Russell marks out “five distinct lines of modern apostasy [that] stand out in world thought” where apostasy…
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Social Gospel Again
“Again,” referencing an earlier post I made about social efforts by churches. Today’s is from the National Council of Churches’ letter to President Obama, urging him to cut poverty in half– There is no greater concern among the churches of Christ than for those in this nation who live in…
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A Social Mandate?
What role should the Christian church have in helping the poor and downtrodden? This pastor says that it is a “biblical mandate” to spend our lives helping the poor, regardless of their response, for these reasons: The OT clearly expects it, Deut 15:7-8 “The sin of Sodom was their lack of…
Dan Greenfield 